American Diabetes Association says sugar isn't linked to diabetes

• After the American Diabetes Association received a large gift from major manufacturer of sugar-sweetened beverages, its top medical official is claiming that sugar has nothing to do with diabetes.
• In an interview published in todayâ¬(TM)s Corporate Crime Reporter, Richard Kahn, the chief scientific and medical officer with the American Diabetes Association said â¬oeWhat is the evidence that sugar itself has anything to do with diabetes?
• On April 21, the ADA announced a â¬oethree-year, multi-million dollar alliance⬠with Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages, which produces sweetened soft drinks that are implicated in the epidemic of obesity and diabetes in the United States.
• Its parent company is Cadbury Schweppes, which is the third largest soft-drink manufacturer in the world, after Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.
• â¬oeSaying that sugar has nothing to do with diabetes is like saying that tobacco has nothing to do with emphysema,⬠said Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert.
• There is ample evidence linking diets high in sugar, and sugary drinks, with obesity.
• It's hard to understand why an institution like the American Diabetes Assn would sell out to one of the major junk food drink companies and even spout it's phony logic.
• I hear that when Kahn was asked whether sugary drinks have anything to do with diabetes, he responded â¬oeNo one has a clue of whether they do or donâ¬(TM)t.⬠How can he lie like that when plenty of credible evidence shows the opposite?
• i think that saying sugar has nothing to do with diabetes, is like saying there is no diabetes.
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